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India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.27

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.27

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c12.s1.27

*PERSONAL AND PALACE STAFF.*—The King, in keeping with his royal dignity, maintained a full contingent of personal and household staff which consisted of body-guards, the chamberlain, ecclesiastical staff, toilet attendants, and inferior servants who were in charge of royal paraphernalia. The *Ashṭādhyāyī* acquaints us with each one of these classes of officers.